Jean Paul
Jean Paul
Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth21 March 1763
CountryGermany
world want bed
If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.
mistake people together
Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.
possibility advantage can-do
All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.
responsibility responsible
I am responsible for everything... except my very responsibility.
responsibility men liberty
We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to be sure, but of himself, of his own consciousness, of his liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and of the world of everything except the Jews.
goal want wells
In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.
party causes communist
I entered the [Communist] Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.
events responsible being-responsible
To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.
essence existence
Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.
writing thinking long
I think there is an enormous diference between speaking and writing. One rereads what one writes. But one might read it slowly or quickly. In other words, you do not know how long you will have to spend deliberating over a sentence. ... But if I listen to a tape recorder, the listening time is determined by the speed at which the tape turns and not by my own needs.
spirituality behinds
Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.
madness absurd relation
A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
excuse remedy
Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.
distance heart nausea
Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.